Grammar can often be very difficult to teach and just as difficult to learn - but Busyteacher.org has 11,239 printable grammar worksheets in different categories. Whether you're looking for worksheets on a specific topics, like movies, nationalities, or music; or on a specific area of grammar, like tenses, gerunds, prepositions, or modal verbs, BusyTeacher.org has got you covered. All 11,239 of our printable worksheets are completely free to download without registering or logging in, and every single one of them was created and submitted by fellow ESL teachers from around the world.
The worksheets below will help you supplement your lessons, and will also provide additional practice for your students. Our worksheets serve as great gap fillers during lessons, to help your students retain the grammar learned during the lesson. In addition, you can print out each worksheet for your students to take home, so they can continue to practice in their free time. The worksheets below are unique in that they come in various styles. Some are purely for grammar practice, some are colorful with several illustrations for young learners, and some have sound files or are in power point presentation format. You can sort the worksheets below by most popular, latest, and most downloaded.
The worksheets also show which level of ESL learners they're for, which will make your search for a suitable worksheet for your class a breeze. Some of the worksheets aren't limited to just one level or category. You may find that a worksheet can be used for beginner and/or intermediate students. When you find a worksheet that looks useful to you, just click on the thumbnail of that worksheet and preview it before downloading. These worksheets are great for the current style of ESL communication-based education, where you and your students practice language together, rather than just working in a lecture format. As you probably know, using this format is extremely useful, because there are so many exceptions to grammar rules - especially in areas like clauses or passive voice. These aren't areas that students can just memorize by taking notes in a lecture they need to produce and work with the grammar. That's exactly where these grammar worksheets come into play. They're are not only great resources for the classroom, but also great homework assignments and practice work for students. With the help of these worksheets, students can familiarize themselves with how and why certain grammar topics are used and needed.
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This is a simple worksheet for teaching the passive voice with present perfect at intermediate level. There's a brief explanation at the top of the page followed by an activity in which students a ...
This is a worksheet for teaching the passive voice with past continuous at intermediate level. There's a brief explanation followed bu an activity in which students are asked to rewrite the senten ...
This is a song lesson recommended for practicing Present Simple negative, based on "Lucy doesn't love you" song by Ivy. The lesson plan has pre- and post-listening activities. Good for young teena ...
This is a quite complete lesson plan for Present Simple, based on the song from The Lion King. It includes pre-listening structural exercises on Present Simple verb form and frequency adverbs and ...
Irregular Verbs. This is what I normally use every session in my classes. It takes time, but really helpful :) Students need to find the forms using dictionaries, and then they will gradually memo ...
It is a presentation about the definite article "the" which includes a section about the usages of the definite article under the heading "when to use?" and another section about its appropriate p ...
This is a presentation of comparatives & superlatives that I designed for pre-intermediate students. This can be used either as a review or a first introduction of the subject. I suggest you ...
This worksheet provides your students with a brief explanation of passive voice. There is also a grid displaying how passive voice works in different tenses. Additionally, there is a number of exa ...
This handout provides a good overview of all the English tenses (simple + progressive). It refers to the use of tenses as well as how they are built. Moreover, there are several example sentences ...
This is a writing activity which leads to a speaking activity using the Past Continuous Tense. A teacher is found dead at his own house and nobody knows who has killed him, so the students are sup ...
There are 110 sentences in direct spech to be written into reported speech. There are statements (positive and negative) questions, orders and command and suggestions. The introductory verbs are g ...
There are 20 sentences in direct speech to be written into reported speech. There are only statements (positive and negative). The introductory verbs are given in each sentence. There is enough sp ...
There are 29 seven sentences in direct spech to be written into reported speech. There are statements (positive and negative) questions, orders and command and suggestions. The introductory verbs ...
There are 27 seven sentences in direct spech to be written into reported speech. There are statements (positive and negative) questions, orders and command and suggestions. The introductory verbs ...
In this paper I briefly but comprehensively presented The Gerund Mood with its various aspects, uses and examples. It can be used by teachers as a handout or lesson plan for teaching the gerund w ...
This worksheet helps pupils to practise the structure "where". First, just give the pictures to the pupils and tell them they have to ask and answer questions about where the characters are (oral ...
This is a fun way for you to do revision on basic tenses, articles, pronouns and parts of speech with your student. With the boardgame, it would be easier for you and your students to find out whi ...
EFL Classroom Listening Activity Topic: Negotiating and Giving a Complaint Vocabulary items Match the words in column A with the correct meanings in column B. True or False Put a T if it is true ...
Plural nouns- students have to create sentences about the pictures in the box, by using (There is/ There are). It is a great activity for elementary students.
A class mingle in the 'Find someone who' format. Topic covers activities students may have done during the summer holidays. Each line has a picture and the topic. Students ask the question, and th ...
This is a simple worksheet for teaching or revising the passive voice with present continuous. Recommended for intermediate students who are asked to rewrite the sentences given using the passive ...
This is a worksheet for teaching the past simple of the verb to be at elementary level. There's a brief explanation and 3 different activities in which students are asked to give short answers fo ...
This worksheet seeks to work on synonyms while revising the use of too + adjective. Students will probably have studied this topic so it serves more as learning enjoyment. The teacher can even ask ...
The worksheet explores the use of "too" + adjective and "such a" + adjective forms. The students listen to the song and then deduce the use of the structure by answering the questions that follow. ...
Do you want to know if your students learned past simple or not? Check it easily with this worksheet ! An easy gap filling story in past tense. It doesn't take much time: just 6 minutes or so. Y ...
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